Several porcupine taxa are reported from the middle Miocene to the early Holocene in the
Old World. Among these, five species of the subfamily Hystricinae occurred in Africa …

The Hyaenidae are today a small carnivoran family including only four monospecific genera,
although their paleodiversity was very high from the Miocene to the Pleistocene, with a …

A well preserved cranium which represents the most complete skull of Pachycrocuta
brevirostris (Carnivora, Hyaenidae) discovered in Africa, and a maxillary fragment from the …

Hyainailourine hyaenodonts are among the largest terrestrial carnivorous mammals known.
The clade is widely dispersed, found in Eurasia, North America, and Afro-Arabia in the …

All hominid fossils from Sterkfontein Member 4 and Makapansgat are conventionally
classified as Australopithecus africanus in spite of their great morphological diversity …

Recent publications have described the diverse, well-preserved samples of Plio-Pleistocene
mammalian species recovered during three different phases of excavation into in situ and ex …

The MPFT practices of inventorying and publishing fossils does not differ from those
normally practised in palaeontology. All collected specimens, including hominids, are …

We describe unpublished material of the poorly known hyracoid, Brachyhyrax aequatorialis
from the Early Miocene of Songhor and Koru, Kenya, on the basis of specimens stored in the …

A palate with much of the dentition from Aragai, Lukeino Formation (6 Ma) Kenya, is the most
complete known specimen of a Late Miocene procaviid hyracoid. It shares several features …

IN 1955, I described a new species of large, fossil porcupine from the limeworks quarry of
Makapan, and which was named Hystrix major. Dr. Abu Bakr, of the Museum of Comparative …